alienator

English

Noun

alienator (plural alienators)

1. A person who alienates.
   • 1820 December, Charles Lamb, “The Two Races of Men”, in The London Magazine, volume 2, number 12, page 624:

     To one like Elia, whose treasures are rather cased in leather covers, than closed in iron coffers, there is a class of alienators more formidable than that which I have touched upon; I mean, your borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Derived terms

• alienatress

 

Translations

person who alienates

• Portuguese: alienante m or f

Anagrams

• rationale, taeniolar

Latin

Verb

aliēnātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of aliēnō

References

• alienator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• alienator in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016